Honoured to have received the runner-up award at the Rapid-fire Research Showcase at ANZMUSC this October! Grateful for the opportunity to present my work and connect with brilliant minds in the field. 🌟

📣 Just published! Is exercise effective for knee osteoarthritis? A Cochrane systematic review Led by Dr Belinda Lawford with collaborators: Michelle Hall Prof Rana Hinman Libby Spiers Alexander Kimp Kim Bennell 🔗cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…

Congratulations to CHESM team members recognised at the 2024 UniMelb MDHS Recognition of Staff Years of Service event yesterday 🎉 10+ yrs Kade Paterson Penny Campbell Libby Spiers 20+ yrs Ben Metcalf Prof Rana Hinman Adam Bryant 25+ yrs Kim Bennell Team colour-coordinated too!

Out now in The Lancet Rheumatology - our new arthritis projections for Australia Arthritis Australia Monash Public Health Rachelle Buchbinder Danielle Berkovic ➡️ 3.11 million people living with OA by 2040 ➡️ almost $10 billion of health system expenditure for OA by 2040

For the first time in Australia, overweight and obesity became the leading risk factor contributing to the burden of disease in 2024. Read more in the recently released Australian Burden of Disease Study 2024 👉 brnw.ch/21wPKcZ

Relationship Between Number of Different Lower‐Limb Resistance Exercises Prescribed in a Program and Exercise Outcomes in People With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review With Meta‐Regression - Arthritis Care & Research acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ac…

Our trial just published in PLOS Medicine found that an x-ray–based diagnosis and explanation of knee osteoarthritis may have potentially undesirable effects on people’s beliefs about management 👇 doi.org/10.1371/journa… Prof Rana Hinman CHESM Kim Bennell

🥳 Just out in March's issue! 🛑 Assuming regression to the mean (RTM) for real change? #caveatemptor Free to read from Martin Englund and Turkiewicz - oarsijournal.com/action/showPdf…

Excited to present a poster at the 2025 OARSI in Incheon, South Korea, and to receive recognition for successful completion of the Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journals peer review training program. CHESM OARSI Early Career Investigators

Latest from CHESM Physiotherapy UniMelb ...Led by Travis Haber Recent highlights and uncertainties in exercise management of knee OA, published by Journal of Physiotherapy sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Interested in a career in musc #physiotherapy #research? The Australian Physiotherapy Association is holding a webinar next week: 🤔 research as a possible career pathway after completing a physio degree 👩🏻‍🎓 life as a PhD student 📆 webinar 10th July, 7pm More details: australian.physio/pd/pd-product?…

📣 Exercise (mostly) does not wear down your knee joint! Our #Commentary looks the myths & realities associated with exercise therapy and #knee joint #health Read and consider sharing with patients (and maybe stubborn relatives 😉) ➡️ ow.ly/iEuS50Wla1E #yourJOSPT

🏃‍♂️‍August's Editor's Choice is on #Taichi ✅ Several benefits associated with #Taichi in this 28 study systematic review that included 1676 OA participants 👀 Read more from Zhao et al. at oarsijournal.com/article/S1063-…

Results of our ECHO trial are out! Latest from CHESM Efficacy of a Very-Low-Calorie Weight Loss Diet Plus Exercise Compared With Exercise Alone on Hip Osteoarthritis Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 0, No 0 acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN…

We’re calling for a bold change, urging the Commonwealth Government to invest at least $100 million in an Arthritis and MSK Research Mission. Learn more and get involved: arthritisaus.good.do/researchnow/Ar… #ArthritisAustralia #ArthritisMSKMRFF #WorldArthritisDay2025 #RMDreams

Latest from CHESM …..what are the most important research priorities in PA/exercise therapy for hip/knee #osteoarthritis?

Research led by Julia Zhu found a free online Tai Chi program was more effective in improving pain and function for people with chronic knee pain than an online education control. Happy to be involved as part of a great study with CHESM jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Checkout this University of Melbourne #Pursuit article AND an interview on PainRelief.com where I discuss our recently published work developing and testing an online Tai Chi program for knee OA CHESM Pursuit: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Onlin… PainRelief blog: painrelief.com/pain-relief/on…

Comparative efficacy and safety of exercise modalities in knee osteoarthritis: systematic review and network meta-analysis (open access) doi.org/10.1136/bmj-20…